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RE: Custom emoticons in SN
Because it has to be sent to ALL your contacts. Even if they don't want it to be sent (eg. I don't want my temporary internet files to be cluttered up all the time by hundreds/thousands of CE's). This is very different then when you are initiated in a conversation and CE's or a DP is send.
And since it has to be sent to all your contacts whenever you change your name, it also goes through the servers (the MSG initiation) and the servers need to initiate such a stream to all your contacts, etc.... So, the logic reason why it isn't added, is because of the flooding, slowdowns and enourmous bandwidth that it will generate....
(also make this calculation: you have 50 contacts, and you have 2 CE's in your nick, this means 2 x 50 x 500 Bytes (average) = 50 Kb! has to be sent (on picture data only, so the other protocol-data isn't even added!) each time your name is sent, requested, used, showed, etc. Yes, of course the CE's can be cached but it will still be a huge amount of data for you only. So do that times what? 20 million (amount of people using messenger)? 10 million?..........)
This post was edited on 10-02-2004 at 11:22 PM by CookieRevised.
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